[LEAPSECS] BBC article

[Rob Seaman]

On Nov 5, 2011, at 3:06 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:


> In message <A099DDF7-4720-4B2E-8E45-F4F81D58EE8B at noao.edu>, Rob Seaman writes:

> 

>> You mean other than costing $100,000,000 to accommodate.

> 

> I didn't see that number in his slides, what page was it on ?


It wasn't in the slides, rather in discussions.

Of course, the implicit assumption by ITU proponents of a magical zero dollar cost for redefining UTC isn't even in discussions anywhere.  We should all welcome a cost accounting before this proposed change to a fundamental standard.  What was that number again?  You say each leap second costs "Zillions and zillions of euros"?

Rob